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Hannah Whitaker

The plastics used to create these water bottles contain hormone disrupting chemicals including phthalates, which can leach into the water.

One million plastic beverage bottles are bought every minute around the world.

As tyres roll away the miles, they abrade, throwing off small pieces of synthetic rubber—essentially plastic—that then are washed off roads and into streams, eventually finding their way to the oceans.

Small bits of degraded plastic from tyre wear pervade the environment, including the oceans, researchers are discovering.

A million plastic drinks bottles were purchased each minute as of 2017. The plastic bottle's journey from convenience to curse has played out quickly—in a single generation.

Plastic bottles and bottle caps are the third and fourth most collected plastic rubbish in the Ocean Conservancy’s annual beach cleanups.

Cigarette butts are the top plastic polluters, with an estimated two-thirds of the trillions of filters used each year tossed into the environment.

Filters store some of the chemicals that smokers inhale—not really enough to help smokers' health, but enough to kill fish that live near discarded butts leaching toxins.

Plastic packaging like these clamshells can be recycled. It doesn't mean that they always are.